As a gay couple together since 1992, we believe that marriage and all the responsibilities and benefits that come with it should be available to committed gay and lesbian couples everywhere. So we created Purple Unions, a place where gay and lesbian couples can find gay friendly wedding vendors to help them plan their perfect wedding day.

Vermont was the first US state to offer civil unions to gay and lesbian couoles, after the legislature passed the law in 2000 in response to a Vermont Supeme Court ruling in 1999. In April 2009, Governor Jim Douglas vetoed a bill to upgrade the civil unions law to full marriage equality, but both houses of the legislature overrode his veto, and in September gay and lesbian couples could legally marry in Vermont.